HP Contract Job Trends in London

HP
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of HP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HP over the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Hewlett-Packard Company.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 314 306
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 +21
Contract jobs citing HP 73 62 115
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.53% 0.40% 0.57%
As % of the Vendors category 1.15% 0.91% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 50 95
10th Percentile £154 £180 £199
25th Percentile £279 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.23% -13.89% +2.56%
75th Percentile £608 £493 £600
90th Percentile £711 £550 £675
England median daily rate £375 £425 £415
% change year-on-year -11.76% +2.41% -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% +1.28% -2.08%
75th Percentile - - £24.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.59 £24.00
% change year-on-year +16.49% -10.04% -

All Vendors
London

HP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,371 6,780 8,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.46% 43.65% 41.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,110 4,255 5,789
10th Percentile £325 £313 £306
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £639 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.71% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 61 112
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.75 £22.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.33% -2.47% +58.17%
75th Percentile £38.13 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £100.00 £85.95
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.16% -21.35% +73.08%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

HP job vacancy trend in London

HP
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in London over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP in London

HP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the London region over the 6 months to 4 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -3 9 £498 +42.21% 23
West London -11 1 £475 +280.00% 3
South London - 1 £175 - 3
HP
England

HP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 15 (20.55%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 29 (39.73%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (16.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.37%) PORTIA
3 1 (1.37%) Sage X3
3 1 (1.37%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 34 (46.58%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (13.70%) Azure
3 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.11%) GCP
3 3 (4.11%) IaaS
3 3 (4.11%) PaaS
3 3 (4.11%) Power Platform
3 3 (4.11%) PowerApps
3 3 (4.11%) SaaS
4 2 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.74%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.37%) AWS
5 1 (1.37%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.37%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.37%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (1.37%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 23 (31.51%) Wireless
2 12 (16.44%) SSL
3 3 (4.11%) Firewall
4 2 (2.74%) SAN
4 2 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.37%) DNS
5 1 (1.37%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.85%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.74%) NonStop SQL
4 1 (1.37%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 1 (1.37%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.37%) MySQL
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.37%) SAP BW
4 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (36.99%) JIRA
2 5 (6.85%) TestRail
2 5 (6.85%) Zephyr
3 3 (4.11%) Selenium
4 1 (1.37%) Gatling
4 1 (1.37%) JMeter
4 1 (1.37%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.37%) NeoLoad
General
1 22 (30.14%) Banking
2 18 (24.66%) Social Skills
3 15 (20.55%) Finance
4 12 (16.44%) Public Sector
5 8 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.96%) Manufacturing
5 8 (10.96%) Marketing
6 7 (9.59%) Electronics
6 7 (9.59%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.74%) Front Office
7 2 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Back Office
8 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.37%) Legal
8 1 (1.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (16.44%) Architect
2 11 (15.07%) IT Support
2 11 (15.07%) Senior
3 10 (13.70%) ServiceNow Architect
4 8 (10.96%) Desktop Support
4 8 (10.96%) IT Engineer
4 8 (10.96%) Senior Architect
5 7 (9.59%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 7 (9.59%) 2nd Line Support
5 7 (9.59%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
5 7 (9.59%) Support Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Test Manager
7 5 (6.85%) Analyst
7 5 (6.85%) Lead
7 5 (6.85%) Test Leader
8 4 (5.48%) Developer
8 4 (5.48%) IT Support Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Server Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Break Fix Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.18%) REST
2 13 (17.81%) AngularJS
2 13 (17.81%) JSON
2 13 (17.81%) SOAP
2 13 (17.81%) Web Services
3 12 (16.44%) Apache Camel
3 12 (16.44%) HTML
3 12 (16.44%) HTML5
3 12 (16.44%) JDBC
3 12 (16.44%) jQuery
3 12 (16.44%) LDAP
3 12 (16.44%) ODBC
3 12 (16.44%) RabbitMQ
3 12 (16.44%) SAML
4 2 (2.74%) Middleware
4 2 (2.74%) XML
5 1 (1.37%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.37%) Kafka
5 1 (1.37%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 26 (35.62%) Data Centre
2 10 (13.70%) Driving Licence
3 4 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.74%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.74%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.74%) Reinsurance
4 2 (2.74%) Tandem
5 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.37%) HP Storage
5 1 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.37%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.37%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (34.25%) Android
1 25 (34.25%) Mac OS
2 12 (16.44%) Windows
3 5 (6.85%) Linux
4 4 (5.48%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.74%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (30.14%) Agile
2 17 (23.29%) Customer Service
2 17 (23.29%) DevOps
3 15 (20.55%) ITSM
3 15 (20.55%) Microservices
4 14 (19.18%) Scrum
5 12 (16.44%) Integration Patterns
5 12 (16.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 11 (15.07%) Test Automation
6 11 (15.07%) Test Management
6 11 (15.07%) Test Strategy
6 11 (15.07%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (10.96%) Break/Fix
7 8 (10.96%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (9.59%) Defect Management
8 7 (9.59%) Digital Marketing
8 7 (9.59%) ITIL
8 7 (9.59%) Programme Management
8 7 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (17.81%) JavaScript
2 7 (9.59%) SQL
3 3 (4.11%) Java
3 3 (4.11%) Python
4 2 (2.74%) C
4 2 (2.74%) VB
5 1 (1.37%) C++
5 1 (1.37%) COBOL
5 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (47.95%) SC Cleared
1 35 (47.95%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.81%) DV Cleared
3 7 (9.59%) ISTQB
4 5 (6.85%) Degree
5 3 (4.11%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.74%) MCITP
6 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.37%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.37%) ISEB
7 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.37%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.18%) SLA
2 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.74%) QA
3 1 (1.37%) ISO 15022
3 1 (1.37%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 7 (9.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.37%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.37%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) Firmware
2 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (23.29%) HP ALM
2 12 (16.44%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.74%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (2.74%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.74%) SCOM
4 1 (1.37%) Grafana
4 1 (1.37%) HP Operations Orchestration
4 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (39.73%) Dell
2 28 (38.36%) Apple
3 24 (32.88%) Cisco
4 13 (17.81%) ServiceNow
5 12 (16.44%) BMC
5 12 (16.44%) Ivanti
5 12 (16.44%) Remedy
5 12 (16.44%) SAP
6 11 (15.07%) Microsoft
7 6 (8.22%) Oracle
8 4 (5.48%) IBM
9 2 (2.74%) VMware
10 1 (1.37%) Alteryx
10 1 (1.37%) Charles River
10 1 (1.37%) Citrix
10 1 (1.37%) F5
10 1 (1.37%) MobileIron
10 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.37%) Sage
10 1 (1.37%) SimCorp